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‘WITH POOR SIGHT YOU CAN FEEL INTENSELY VULNERABLE’

“This is my happy place,” says Big Issue vendor Jack Osborne-Richardson, sitting on a bench looking out over Bristol’s Berkeley Square, a small Georgian park that overlooks the city. Jack sells The Big Issue on nearby Park Street and returns to his favourite bench in the square most days to read, think, and feed his beloved crows, who all know him by sight and will literally eat out of his hand. “It’s amazing for my mental health,” he says. “It’s like regenerating sanity.”

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